The Accidental Runaway

Chapter 4; Honesty Hour

•Chapter 4; Honesty Hour

Melanie's P.O.V:

I hear think footsteps, I panic pulling away, and I brace myself. I'm super confused when I don't feel the whip. I look up, and no one is there.

"Hey," he says while tilting my chin up with his finger, "She won't come in here for the rest of the night. She's asleep.
He then takes the hand that he tilted my chin up with, and puts it in the back of my hair, pushing my head forward, so that we're kissing.

He pulls away, resting his head on my shoulder, and he sniffs my neck. Then it hits me, HE'S A VAMPIRE!!!!! Somehow, that doesn't freak me out like I think it should.

He winces, and I look at him confused, "What's wrong?" I ask him.

He looks at my face, and he traces his fingers carefully over the lines under my eye, "What did you do to yourself?"

I pull his hand off of my face, and I softly say, "It's nothing."

He makes me look him in the eyes, "Mel, please just tell me. What are those from?" He asks he with a lot of concern in his voice.

I sigh, then I slowly pull out the razor from my pocket, "That's what it was from. I only have this for self defense reasons."

He looks at me, with one eyebrow raised, "Mel." He says to me.

"Okay, okay," I say to him while looking at the floor, "I've been a bit suicidal these past couple months."

He smiles at me, "Since we're both being honest here, I've been feeling the same way."

I look at him, one eyebrow raised, "Seriously?" I ask him as I'm taking off my sweatshirt, revealing my arms. Which have at least 50+ scars and fresh cuts all the way from my shoulder to the end of my wrists on each arm.

He takes my left arm, and he just starts to kiss every single scar. Once he's done with that arm, he takes my right arm, and does the same with that arm.

In all seriousness, that does actually make my arms feel a lot better.

Aaron looks at me and says, "Have you tried committing before?" I shake my head yes. "If you don't mind me asking, how?"

I look up at the ceiling so I don't have to look him in the eyes when I say this, "Well, I've tried cutting, overdose, starvation, suffocation, lead poisoning, and if I wasn't selected for the auctions, I would have drank bleach and if that failed, I'd try to hang myself. If neither of those worked, I would have shot myself in the head or the heart. What about you?"

He looks at the floor for a second, before returning his gaze back to my eyes before saying, "Only one way to truly kill a vampire....."

"And that's a wooden stake to the heart." I say, completing his sentence.

He nods his head, "Yup." He hugs me before saying, "I'm glad you were chosen for the Auctions."

I pull away smiling, "Yeah. Me to."

Right after I pull away, I get this burning sensation at the base of my neck. I put my hand where my neck is burning, theres nothing on my neck, so why is my neck burning?

Right after I feel that, the entire room goes cold. "Aaron?" I ask in a very worried voice.

"Yeah?" He asks me.

"I have this really bad feeling......" I stop mid sentence, focusing on a sound I hear.

(Might edit later) He pulls something out of his pocket, "I have something for you." He says and I hold out my hands, cupping them. He places something in my hands, and I smile when I see what it is. It's a necklace, with a Purple Heart with black wings, I flip over the heart and it says 'No matter where you go, I'll always be in your Heart -Aaron'

I look up at Aaron, "I love it. Thanks Aaron." I say as I put it on.

Aaron gives me one last hug before saying, "I'm going to go to bed now. I'll see you in the morning okay?"

I nod my head, as he walks out of the room.

I'm sitting in the darkness, when my pocket starts to vibrate..... Wait pockets don't usually vibrate, then it hits me, it's my phone.

There's a text from my mom it says, 'Mel, where are you?'

I text her back saying, 'Don't panic, I've been auctioned, the mother is a jerk, but the son is really nice. He's about my age and his name is Aaron. Don't worry, I'm working on finding my way back home. I'll see you when I get back. I love you.'

I put my phone on silent before returning it to my pocket.